Corporatism and its Application to Analyze State, Public and Private Employment Services Agencies’ Cooperation in Third-Country Nationals Transition to Work

As recent decades have seen a growing interest in advanced enabling states public service reforms that promote the devolution of responsibility from the state to market, corporatism has emerged as a major topic of inquiry among public policy scholars. Corporatism new arranged governance postulates an institutionalized pattern of policy implementation that emphasize large interest organizations cooperate with each other and with public authorities not only in the articulation and even the “intermediation” of interest, but also in the authoritative allocation of values and in the implementation of such policies. However, it pertains to the question of inequality and self-interest as well as the associative-cooperative mode entails risk because only to some extent can the state combine procedural instead of substantive regulation with a credible threat of direct intervention can hold private agencies accountable. Analyzing the state, public and private employment service agencies cooperation in the realm of Employment Act under corporatist theory to enable third-country immigrants’ employment-related transition from welfare to workfare are key to understand and interpret the specific relations of cooperation between the government, market, and civic sector in this research. Drawing on document and scholarly text in Austria, Finland, and Czech Republic, I will be analyzing data with official policy documents and scholarly texts over the time, and I will prepare a presentation about the enabling state, public authorities and private employment agencies cooperation in the realm of Employment Act under corporatism to enable third-country immigrants’ employment-related transition from welfare to workfare. I will briefly outline the process of document and content analysis I developed and then support it with slides. Furthermore, I will then show a short video to illustrate both the process in action and some obstacles. After that, again using slides, I will outline and distinguished consensual decision making, equality in intermediation of interest, and authoritative allocation of values that favor a multilevel administrative decision-making governance in contemporary time of austerity policy and scarce resources that may impact third country immigrant’s employment-related transition from welfare to workfare. This reflects the enforcement of a deliberately democracy and bureaucratic accountability where government face the risk to hold private agencies fully accountable that may incubate fraud in disfavor of sustainable finance and penalize minority groups belongings with social cohesion process. Acknowledgement: The work on this article has been supported by the Charles University Specific Academic Research Projects Competition (project No. 260462)